191. Wake in Fright
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle
Plot: An educated man, John Grant, arrives in the rough Australian mining town
of Bundanyabba - a one-night stay before heading to Sydney. Yet one night
stretches to five, and soon Grant loses all semblance of the man he was
and wakes from an alcohol-soaked bender to face a desolate wasteland and
his own demons.
192. Johnny Got His Gun
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Actors: Don 'Red' Barry, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Byron Morrow
Plot: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee.
193. Coming Home
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty
Plot: A woman left alone after her husband goes to Vietnam decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital. There she meets Luke, an old high school friend, who has been paralyzed from the waist down with an injury. But as she helps him heal, it opens the door for romance, forcing her to make a life-altering decision.
194. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo
Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is
questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows
the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with
dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will
encounter.
195. Klute
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam
196. Cooley High
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Schultz
Actors: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers, Maurice Leon Havis
Plot: In the mid-1960's, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest.
197. Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Alexander Allerson, Volker Spengler
198. Phantom of Liberty, The ( fantôme de la liberté, Le )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale
Plot: Bunuel's enchanting surrealist film casts his usual jaundiced eye on the players and institutions of Western society through a series of loosely interconnected episodes.
199. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, Peter Whitney
Plot: Left for dead in the desert, Hogue stumbles upon a spring that not only saves his life, but proves lucrative as it is the perfect way station for local stagecoaches. A local whore moves in with him and all seems well... until the advent of the automobile changes everything.
200. A Bridge Too Far
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: James Caan, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins
Plot: World War II's Operation Market Garden rendered in all of its floundering
glory. Neither Allied command nor German generals come across as
particularly competent.
